London Pulse secure their first Netball Super League title and denied Loughborough Lightning an unprecedented three-peat with ...

A famous chess academy in Katwe, a slum in Kampala, Uganda that set the stage for Lupita Nyong'o's 2016 Hollywood film Queen of Katwe, is struggling to stay afloat.The academy had hoped to receive ...

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A famous chess club in a slum of Uganda's capital that became the focus of the Hollywood movie Queen of Katwe is still ...

The BBC is understood to have thrown support behind Maxine Croxall, who recently corrected a news report from "pregnant ...

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On Sunday, Atal Mashwani, the spokesman of the Taliban government's sports directorate, said chess in Islamic sharia law is "considered a means of gambling". "There are religious considerations ...

The ancient game of chess is one steeped in tradition, with a history dating back centuries. The classical form of chess is still prominent on the global stage, but streaming and online platforms ...

Crystal Palace and England forward Eberechi Eze pockets $20,000 (£15,000) in prize money after winning an online chess tournament.

Thalia Holmes, formerly a pupil at Haberdashers’ Adams School in Newport and former member of Newport Chess Club, has reached the grand final of the BBC Two show Chess Masters: The Endgame series.